SCREENING #28

SCREENING #28

7 PM
GUIDED TOUR at Kunstverein
with Rebekka Seubert

8 PM
FILM at Kino im U
La Chimera
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
IT, FR, 2023 (130‘)
Language: Italian, English, Subtitles: German

selected by Mariana Castillo Deball

Italy in the 1980s. The peculiar Brit Arthur is the ace of the wild group of “Tombaroli,” who dig up the Etruscan soil in search of ancient treasures: grave goods of immeasurable value, made for the souls of the departed, not for the eyes of the living. But Arthur does not chase the chimera of quick money. His chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, he challenges the boundaries between dream and reality, between the visible and the invisible, on an adventurous search for that gateway to the afterlife of which myths speak.
As lonely as Arthur’s quest may be, he is not alone: Beniamina’s mother, the aging aristocrat Flora, lives in her vast villa between grandeur and decay; the Tombaroli drag him along to wild parties; the fence Spartaco buys the antiquities wrested from the earth for a pittance; and Italia, with irresistible cheerfulness and a crash course in Italian sign language, breathes new life into Arthur.
One night, Arthur, Italia, and the Tombaroli unexpectedly stumble upon an Etruscan treasure chamber. Faced with immeasurable abundance and breathtaking beauty, the boundaries between past and present, sacred and tangible, life and death seem to rearrange themselves. Has Arthur’s quest come to its end?

“La Chimera,” following Happy as Lazzaro, is Alice Rohrwacher’s new film and a marvel in the best tradition of Italian cinema: magical, profound, burlesque, down-to-earth and fantastic, philosophical, comedic and dramatic, a moving love story and an unbridled adventure. Wonderfully shot by Hélène Louvart and masterfully edited by Nelly Quettier, Josh O’Connor (The Crown) shines as the melancholic grave robber in a stunning ensemble with Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Alba Rohrwacher, and the great Isabella Rossellini.

Text: Piffl Medien  

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